Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-04-27
GRAYDMUTHER'S MONEY.

GRANDMOTHER > NUN Il {.
..BleSs and save US, mother, what he
- 5ofn,:- demanded Farmer Martin in
mat amazement, as he came in at the
Sitcbeu door for a jug Of molaSseS and
I'm a-cleauin' house." said Mrs.
Martin.
masquerade party she could scarcely
have disguised herself more systemati-
ally Her head WAS tied up ii roller
towaI whose ends, escaping behind,
.ssrralmed ike a meteor to the troubled
air" her portly figure was encased in a
coarse working apron, her skirts were
mined up. and her sleeves rolled high
above the elbow.
Didn't know ye calkelated 10 COM
mence to-day, said the farmer.
"Wel. didn't exactly" " owned his
Uife But the minute your mother
made I'D her mind she'd have the horse
and wagon and 20 over TO Deacon
Tuige'S widow 10 spend the day, |
made up nv mind to begin house-clean-
i IN, You see, Hosea, you know your
self that Mother Martin is pleasant
old ladv. and | set a deal of store by
4 her, but She can't bear TO have nOthin'
disturbed. and them files of old papers
4 I'D garret. and heaps Of rusty tins and
4 Old bottles down cellar, and the broken
s crockerv back Of the pantry door that
4 she alvavs SAYS she's going to mend
i when she gets time, and the barrels of
4 rags il the stOre-room she's goin' to
/. sort over in a minute of lelSure"-
''What be We goin' to do with 'em?"
asked Farmer Martin, as his wife
paused to draw long, despairing
breath.
-'Ingy - gone. said Mrs. Martin,
with a Toguish twinkle IN her eyes.
"E0ne whert2''
Matilda sold the rags to ragman
before grandma's wagon was out of
sight" said the enterprising nation.
The papers Elder Boley gave me five
dollars for. because they dated clear
back to President Zach Taylor's time,
an be said they u be a curiosity for the
Young Mems Reading-ROom, and the
crockery and the old tin cans and the
bottles aS amt good for nothing under
creation. | gave Bill Belts quarter to
take 'em down to the old well by the
stone fence. and fling 'em all in.
What" cried Mr. Martin. ''Fillin'
up my old We'll, eh, Where be | goin'
TO water the cattle. dye s'pose:"
''It amt but a little further to the
brook, " sad Mrs. Martin. And that
well amt safe. Never was, since the
curb r0tted away,'
MANY gourd-shen of pure cold
water I've drunk there, when the old
house stood close by under the butter
nut tree. said the farmer, with a sigh,
''afore We pulled it down and built the
new one.
'Wel. ye won't never drink no
more" said Mrs. Martin. The
waters most al run out since we dug
the new well down here, and I've had
the children carrying cobble stones
there all the spring, at penny hum
dred, 10 get the huckleberry pasture
cleared out little. And now the old
truck has gone atop Of it-and a good
uddance Of two bad things at once,
SAYS t.
Mr. Martin grOaned.
well, mother,' says he, ''what
potherS melS-what will grandma say?"
i don't suppose she'll be pleased"
said Ms Martin, stirring vigorously at
PAL Of whitewash. but it's done,
and 1t can't he undone; and, after all,
what's the use of turning ones house
INTO mdgple'S neSt"'
Inc farmer filled up his Jug and re-
treated TO the remotest Businesses of
me timothy meadow, resolved to be as
IaI as possible out of the way when the
Old lady came home.
'lletty likes her own way" said he.
ana so does mother, and VIXEN flint
ana steel come together, there's most
generally fire,''
but poor Mother Martin came home
III quite a different fashion from what
u4es expected. Struck down with apo
P-eAy al the neighbor'S house, she was
SdIIied back across her own threshold,
Uedu. And Mrs. Martin, who, in
SpIIe OF her peculiarities. had been fond
u htr lnother-In-law, wept tears of
genuine grief, and audibly rejoiced
mat grandma had never known about
en-: Sle seillhg OF the old papers, and the
ming up OF the ancient well.
30 MIS-. Martin, senior, was dead and
ouIleu III The old cemetery by the noun
-, Strange, amt it?'' said Mrs. Deacon
iIg' iituuge' Everybody s'posed old Mrs
-IaL 1lli mad money in the bank, and
now there amt a sion of il 10 ha
found,n
All fooled away in them dece;yin'
onaieS 9:ai mat her son JOSIAH was ruined
WIN, said Miss Grundy. That's the
"GS 81 Il gone, you may depend"
bGl Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Martin
Souiu not believe that grandma could SO
IdL nave lost her senses as to fritter
'oiiu money away like that.
~ AS sure as you live,l e,lHosea, - said
.Le VIE, shes put it away some
THeie: in stocking or bag, or I'D
oI5 ln5 Ghimbly, or under the bricks of the
Uiu Kitchen hearth. and il must he
found. For Matilda's sakeI Grandma
,u"ays TnHI sad Matty was to have her
Prtes iilOes ana now that she is engaged to
i'Gius tII.. burton, and all-'
"a my private opinion. Hetty,''
. sa-u 'lie IarI er, shaking his head in a
Soi5 oiS oL o. Encouraging way, that you
bagsi" N0ii' up III 'he rag
in, Nohsense!" said Mrs. Martin, grow
rigs s psie. ut might have been in the
in, lies OF newspapers, laid fat and stitched
U"n. Ana I've heard tell o. such things.
"asu % speak the truth, Hosea. I've